Chap 13: A reason to live.
A.N. Hey guys!... just a warning. I will be writing these next chapters with quite a bit of depression (Not as much as you think, calm down ok- HEY! Don't you DARE close this Chap!... Please? I cri evry teme…) But these next chapters will be revolving around Ep. 5. It won't BE Ep 5 of the anime so remember that ok? Now, without Ferber adoo! Let's begin, shall we? And P.S Warning. There WILL be some fluff and dirty jokes (not as much as you think, calm it! Heeeey! Don't go!...) In these next chapters. Enjoy!
P.S.S I'm starting to do this thing where each chapter matches a certain song to go with it!
The song for this chapter is: 'When can I see you again?' By 'Owl City' and btw don't replay the song unless I tell you to ok? Just play this song once.
… and later in the chapter I will inform you on another song! I hope that this is a good idea! You can read the story then listen to the song, or you can listen to the song then read the story, or both at the same time! (I prefer that you do the last 2 suggestions) Thank you, and enjoy.
March 3, 2024, Floor 56: Boss Room
: Narrators POV :
The gigantic scaly monster standing on all 4's circled 2 players as a larger boy had a bit smaller boy, with a hood covering the smaller boy's face, held up with his sword in the smaller boy's stomach, the larger boy wrapped his free hand around the other boy's throat, choking him, while saying "Face it runt, I'm better than you. I always have been, and I always will be. This is your final payback for what you did to me irl."
The larger boy then threw the hooded boy to the window, and once the glass of the window shattered and the hooded boy began to fall the taller boy called to his monstrous pet and the thing blasted the hooded boy with a poison element attack sending him flying out of the boss tower….. Down…. Down… and down he fell…
: ? POV :
I felt myself falling down and away from the boss room, and the tower….. (I failed…) "Li…..ly….. n-no….."
March 1, 2024, Floor 56: Pani
: Jay's POV :
( Ya know what? This town is just fan- f*cking – tastic. Every day when I'm here I hear more and more stories of people dying, and about more way's to pk! It's amazing/ terrible that so many of these stories just pop up outta nowhere!? Well, I can't really do anything for a while… the Saviors got in trouble big time…and after the Tia arc , well the writer got tired, so now I'm a bit tired as well….. Well…z….z…..z…z…)
: Narrators POV :
Well now. Our hooded friend Jay here is sleeping on a bench in the outskirts of town, and here at Pani Happiness dances in the air! Love is blooming all around as well!... but a terrible plight awaits our main character. You won't expect this, I didn't even expect it when I read the script!... But enough 4th wall breaks for now.
Jay was sleeping peacefully as a breeze floated through the air… and a certain familiar dirty blonde that wears a also certain familiar bracelet approaches Jay… "Geez, why's he sleeping now?! He said that he wanted to talk and here I am!... Boys…" The girl started to wonder on what she should do… at first she pushed his shoulder lightly, and after that didn't work she tried shaking him a bit. That didn't work either. Next she tried talking into Jay's ear loudly, no luck. "Geez! Is he really this deep of a sleeper?!..."
The girl looked around, saw nobody, and walked behind the bench, and slowly took off his hood. Jay's head went back with the hood, and he hit his head on the back of the bench, he didn't wake up still but mid-sleep he mumbled something… and here's what it sounded like to the listening ear "How about you to just kiss me?" But in actuality he said something about an attack missing him. Yes, he even fought in his dreams. Troubled boy huh?
To her ears that sounded like a GREAT idea. But her face went red with embarrassment because Jay had just said that! She didn't actually know that he was saying something else. Go figure…
: Lily's POV :
('Just kiss me'?! Why would he ever say that?... he doesn't like me! I mean, he IS the "Emerald Assassin" so a lot of girls must want him right?... ohh… I have to admit, he did look cute and kissable at all times. But why would he FINALLY say this now?! Well…) Jay's head lied back onto the back of the bench… in his sleep he suggested that I kiss him to wake him up! My face went red again and I started to freak out… but I took up all of my courage and went for it. I went in slowly… and kissed him from above, our heads opposite parallel from each other. I stayed like that kissing a sleeping Jay for 10 seconds… and then I let go. He tasted good, it was sweet and sour at the same time… it was a addicting taste… "Jay… you… nevermind." I smiled and after about 30 seconds he was still asleep! And I went around to the front of the bench, but stopped. (WHAT. DID. I. JUST. DO?! Why did I kiss Jay?! I mean I'm not complaining or anything… I hope he didn't mind… he kinda did suggest it though…) : Hahahaha no. No he didn't. :
I sat down next to Jay and looked at him, he looked so cute when he slept. I was still pretty embarrassed… but I gathered all of my courage, and I put my head down onto his shoulder, and slowly fell asleep too. (If you can't beat em', join em' I guess…z…z…z…)
: Jay's POV :
I HAD to wake up to a nut shot! When I woke up, my balls felt like something had crushed them! But when I looked down, whoah. I didn't believe what I was seeing. Lily's head was lying in my lap, knocked out cold, and she was laying on the bench too! But something was off… my lips tasted strawberry. What?! Why would they taste strawberry?... But it looked like Lily's head must've fallen off of my shoulder and onto my lap or something. I don't know. But I didn't feel like getting up… because if I did then she would wake up, freak out, and I would get hurt… but anyway! I stayed like that for a while. A LOOOOOOONG while. (C'mon Lil'… next time wake me up to a hug, or you talking, or a kiss, or something!? Geez my nuts hurt T-T… wait. A KISS?! She would never!... Right?...)
: Lily's POV :
I woke up to some rustling, and some beeping… was someone on their player screen?... "Oh, Lil' your awake! So how was 'The Best Seat in the House'? Hehehe… sorry." Jay looked down at me with a smile, and his glowing green eyes… but then I finally realized what he had meant when I saw what angle I was at… I was lying in his lap! I quickly shot up, head-butting him in the process, and I fixed my hair and checked my breath… my face was crimson; I was actually lying in a boy's lap! Not just that, but it was JAY'S lap! I saw Jay grab his nose and it looked like blood was dripping out, did I do that with hitting his head?! "Yeah, thanks Lily, ow…" I accidentally hit his nose, oh no!... "Oh, I'm sorry baby are you ok- I mean I'm sorry JAY!"
He looked at me a bit confused, it seemed like he didn't hear me… that's a relief… "Hey Lily, I got a couple questions, um 1. Why do my lips taste like strawberry? Well Yana berry here. And 2. Why were you sleeping on me?..."
: Jay's POV :
After I had asked her those questions she froze up, looked at me, and her face went red again! Why do girls keep doing that?!...( ! No. She couldn't have! Did she actually…) I looked at her directly, and she squeaked out a worried "Y-Yes?" A huge smile grew on me and I leaned in to her a bit, "Lily… did you try to prank me? Because if so then you failed miserably! Haha!" Lily's face softened, it worked. (She can't know that I figured out what she ACTUALLY did… she doesn't know that I don't eat strawberrys often. And I haven't had any here in SAO yet either… but I do know that a certain someone wears strawberry Chap Stick… I can't let her know that her chap stick prank worked!)
"Hey Lil' also, were you planning on getting teleportation crystals? Because when I got into your player screen I saw that you had none." I started laughing, why did I just say that?! But my mid- laugh was cut off by a punch to the stomach. "Y-eah… I deserved that…" Lily looked furious, she then stared at me and yelled angrily "You did WHAT?" I shrank a bit, I didn't feel like getting hit again… this had to be good. "Yeah, I know… sorry Lil'. But hey! Before you kill me, don't you want to hear what I have to say first?!" I started to talk faster due to her getting ready to kill me in 1 second… *shiver*
But Lily's expression changed to a more peaceful look to my luck… whew… "Oh, yeah why did you call me here?" Lily looked at me curiously, and for a second I forgot why I called her here too, but then I remembered! "Hey Lil' would you wanna party with me for a little bit? There's this mission that I want to take you with me to. I can't do it alone, and you need at least 2 people to do it, so whaddya say? Please?" I had to throw in the final please to butter it up a bit… but she looked at me confused, and I looked back at her confused "What? What'd I do?" I asked her, but Lily put on a serious face and answered me with a question "Why are you doing missions? Didn't the Saviors get disbanded by the order of KoB?" I tensed up, yeah… they did. "Yeah. It's because so many people thought we were irony seeking hypocrites, killing killers. But these mission requests didn't stop, and this one is important. Please hear me out?" Lily moved a little closer after I said that, so I guess that meant 'Sure'? She looked into my eyes, I started to blush a bit. (Lily stop please…) She must've saw me embarrassed because she then laid back and motioned for me to talk.
"Ok.-" I straightened myself up and stared at her, "- I got a private message from an unknown player named 'Kantso' but he said that the reason that it's so hard to defeat the boss is because of an orange player. Apparently though, he says that the orange player tamed the floor boss with a maxed out 'Beast Tamer' skill. I don't know how, but it sounds like it is possible to tame floor bosses. Kantso also said that the orange player nearly killed the floor boss before he tamed it, but the weird thing is this-" I pulled up the message, scrolled to the bottom of it and showed it to Lily.
: Lily's POV :
The message read : "Are you ready for another round? Come find him at the boss tower if you wanna lose. And btw, he knows that she's here. And he's coming for her." I looked up at Jay with a worried/ confused face, who's 'She'? Jay shuffled a bit, and I moved around a bit. This was weird! "So…uuuhhh… do you wanna party? It would be like old times ya know? Come on! "Buzz kill Lil'" Right? Haha! Who named you that?! Seriousl- oh! I'll stop…" I had a glowing red arrow prepared in Jay's face.
"Alright, sounds like fun! So, what're we going to do? Recruit other players to fight with us? Or-" I stopped to look at Jay shaking his head 'NononononoNO.' He looked like he was about to say something, but stopped part way. "What? What's wrong?" I asked in a worried tone, Jay moved around a bit more before finally speaking up… "Well, here's the thing… Kantso said that he needed only me, and a girl player… and that if we brought anyone else then he wouldn't let us go. It's weird, I know… but when I saw it say girl player, you came to mind." WHAT. I recovered a bit from the shock,…"O-Ok, WHAT? So your telling me that only ME, and YOU are gonna take down the floor boss and this orange player?! Are you crazy or something?!" I saw Jay about to answer that question, "-Don't answer that." And he just put his hand down.
I just shrugged, "Alright. So, when do we leave?" Jay then smiled and answered with confidence "Tomorrow."
: Later that night, Jay's POV :
Me and Lil' rented out 2 rooms that were right next to each other so that we could be ready and rendezvous faster tomorrow, and to also to come to one anothers side if we need it. But after I got done settling in, and after taking a bath, I got into my sleeping clothes. It's just soft grey pants, and a green t-shirt to sleep in… I went over to my bed and lied down, (Why am I doing this mission?… or why am I actually dragging Lily into this… the truth is, is that the message said to bring Lily. And it said her nickname given to her in SAO to specify… Honestly I thought about going alone and finding out why this player requested me, and Lily personally. And to get that info I would've inflicted the worst pain onto them if I had to. But how could that orange player have tamed the floor boss for Christ sake?! Did he/ or she cheat? Did they kill it, then revive it with a Pnuema flower?... I'm overthinking this… whatever… how could that even happe-!)
A loud bang came from Lily's room, and then some struggling sounds, and of course I shot up, got out my strongest gauntlets, and burst out into the hallway. I opened Lily's door as fast as I could and when I did I said "Lily! Are you ok-" … but… but… when I opened the door I found no bad deed being commited. I saw no trace of a struggle. But what I did see… umm… how do I say this… Lily was fitting into a pair of underwear when I came in, and I didn't see anything else besides from her wall making contact with my face. I didn't feel anything else besides sweet, sweet unconsciousness after I made it down to the floor… as my vision was fading I heard a door close, and I saw Lily ,who was still in her underwear, run over to me while saying my name… but that faded too along with the rest of everything… going… going… gone.
: Lily's POV :
"What did I just do?! I just grabbed Jay and THREW him from the door to the other side of my room! Oh crap! He's… unconscious." I fell to my knees and sat next to Jay… (He must hate me now. I've messed up so much around him, and I think that he's getting sick of it… I don't know why I'm thinking like this… I like him I guess. But, it's pretty obvious that he'll never like me back… he never see's some of the hints that I give him, he doesn't notice the obvious things that I tell him, and to top it all off, he didn't notice that I kissed him earlier, not prank, KISS! Are all guys this dense?! That Nutaro guy must see that Hanita likes him too right?! What about that Sulfur guy?! Doesn't he see that all Dusk, June, Sunny, Uris, AND Aneres likes him?!) I stopped to look at a sleeping Jay… what he looked like was peaceful, troubled, but calm all at once.
I Smiled, I couldn't help it.
: Right now if you don't mind, I would like to request you to play another song. This song is called "Troubled Boy" By one of my favorite rappers/ singers "Kid Cudi" This will match this next part perfectly. :
But I finally got my priorities straight when I looked down at my almost naked body again, I quickly got some clothes on, and I rushed down stairs and bought an extra bed for my room, I can't carry Jay that far! So I pulled him into the extra bed when I got back upstairs, but when I was about to get into my bed I heard some movement a little bit at Jay's bed. I got worried that he woke up, but when I looked at him he was still asleep. But after I kept looking at him for a bit, he started to stir some more and he started saying something like "Everybody… don't leave me… Lily… no." While sleeping though, Jay's closed eyes filled up with tears… and he was crying over his dream. I felt a pain in my heart after hearing that... it sounded like he was dreaming about being alone, by himself forever.
I ran over to his bed, and I sat on it while franticly shaking Jay to wake up… He wouldn't wake up, and he wouldn't stop trembling or crying.
I got under his covers and lied down right next to him, hugging him tightly while saying quietly "Jay… please… don't think that will ever happen…-" I felt a soft, and warm hand run over my fingers, and when I looked over to my hand, I saw that jay while sleeping put my hand in his in a soft embrace. I looked up at his face to see if he was awake, he wasn't. But his tears stopped, and he looked like he was sleeping soundly. I smiled in relief. He would dream about that too… I closed my eyes tight and lied there for a bit… before I even knew it, I was asleep next to Jay.
: Jay's POV :
I was waking up the next morning… not on the floor, but in a bed. I closed my eyes again, I needed to think… what the hell happened last night? (I went into Lily's room… I saw her… she saw me… I saw her see me see her… then, I was flying towards a wall? Yeah that's it. But what happened afterwards?... oh. Yeah. That dream. I was once again thrown into a strange place, but this time the problem of the dream was different. I wasn't getting beat up by Hassuna, I wasn't fighting a demon… I wasn't watching my dad die again… I was in school. And everybody that I knew, and cared for were surrounding me. But I couldn't move, when I looked down in that dream I saw a slow darkness creeping up my legs, keeping me still. But when I looked up, everyone was gone. I said something… I forgot what I said. But when I looked around, all I saw was Lily in front of me. She walked up to me, and pushed me backwards, the darkness fully consumed me, and I fell. I remember saying something to Lily while falling through the dark. 'Don't go Lily, no.' but I was grabbing through the nightmare, and I caught a hand catching me. I looked up to the hand, but then the dream was gone. I was just sleeping for the rest of the time…) I felt a shuffle next to me, and I looked to my side to see a sleeping Lily.
She started to wake up, but when she saw me she was just about to freak out, and run away from embarrassment or something, but I stopped her. "It's fine. You were the hand that saved me last night huh? Thank you." Lily then stopped moving, and smiled at me. But that smile quickly ran away as she asked me in a serious tone, "So, today we kill a boss, and stop a orange player huh?" I looked at her intently, she seemed worried, but I just smiled and patted her on the head. "It'll be ok, I promise."
But I'm not sure that I could keep that promise.
A.N. this chapter was pure fluff. I'm not sure that I hate it. Frankly, I'm glad that I got that out and in the open. But yes. These next chapters will be pillows, and if you look inside the pillows, all you will see is fluff. Jk, but some of it though, favorite, follow, or just read. I don't mind. And I'm sorry on the wait! I had stuff to do, school, * Says 5 more boring things * But thank you, and I will post more action, and other elements next time! Till next time, cya.